TPU #27 | Which Feed is Your Real Feed?
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I get a lot of questions about feeds. How do I create a feed? Which feed do I promote? Which feed do I submit to iTunes? Do I need to use FeedBurner? In this episode of Podcasting Underground I discuss some of these issues.
I also talk about the podcasting event of the year and give a podcast promotion tip.
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Marc said,
September 8, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Thanks for covering this topic!
It would appear that the FeedSmith Plugin would be useful to those with multiple RSS feeds (for their 1 blogsite) and wishing to re-direct them to 1 FeedBurner feed, as opposed to someone who is first starting out his/her blog and uses FeedBurner’s MyBrand from the get go.
You mentioned that PodPress does provide a nice, FLASH-based player’ GUI (for each Podcast EP posted), and that some bloggers may still hold-on to it for that reason,despite some feature ‘overlap’ FeedBurner - Would the combination of the ‘Audio Player Wordpress plugin’ along with FeedBurner make a more practical solution?
Thanks for getting BOTH IBM’s Blog Posts and Podcast Posts UNDER 1 RSS Feed address, too -
http://www.internet-based-business-mastery.com/category/blog/feed
Any tips on how to best go about doing that (for those who have a blog that contains both Posts and Podcasts?
(Did I just stumble upon an example of when to make use of the FeedSmith Plugin?)
Will such a RSS feed-consolidation effort have any negative effect on Podcast Directories such as iTunes?
Jason said,
September 10, 2007 at 12:19 am
Marc,
Right now I don’t use PodPress. To get the flashing audio player I use the 1PixelOut Audio Player plugin for WordPress.
The best way to set up a blog to do both posts and podcasts is to have your main feed be your blog feed (contains everything including podcast posts) and then have a podcast category whose feed is your podcast feed. If you have already started and it is too late to set up like that, then you have to do redirects in your .htaccess file.
I have not seen any negative effect in iTunes for doing such things.
Max Cross said,
September 10, 2007 at 6:39 am
Great show about feeds. Any ideas about this problem. I am looking to transfer my current podcast site to Drupal. I have created a site and can import audio using the audio module. The problem I have is the RSS feed. I can redirect my feedburner feed no problem but if I create my existing 200 episodes either manually or using leech they will all get a new GUID.
This means a lot of podcatchers will re-download all the existing episodes. If I start from scratch I loose the existing episodes. I guess you get the same problem exporting from one blog provider to another any ideas?
Jason said,
September 10, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Max,
That is a bit of a dilemma. The good news is that not every podcatcher actually looks at the GUID. You may just have to choose the lesser of the two evils.
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